The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King [1985 HARDCOVER] • NAL

The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1985] NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY [NAL]

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.

Dust jacket has a few sealed edge tears and some general shelf wear, but is otherwise clean, vibrant and in tact; now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself makes for an excellent reading copy.  Strongly bound with some visible scratching / rub wear to boards.   Gold gilded title on spine [most editions feature yellow text]

*Embossed stamp from prev. owner on front endpaper and a *stain along top of text block, just barely visible on front and rear endpapers [see last 2 photos.]  Otherwise, contents read beautifully with clean, bright and unmarked pages that show little to no read wear.  

The name on the cover was "Richard Bachman," but the imagination inside could only belong to one man--Stephen King. for years readers of these four novels wrote to "Bachman," asking if the author was really Stephen King writing under a pseudonym. At last the secret is out--and so are these four spellbinding novels of future shock and suspense, now available in one volume.

RAGE - a story of disturbing psychological horror about an "extra" ordinary high school student... [long banned by King himself due to the U.S. school shooting epidemic.]

THE LONG WALK - a chilling glimpse into a future America where a macabre marathon 

ROADWORK - an eerie variation on the theme of "Home Sweet Home"

THE RUNNING MAN - a nightmare vision of a ghoulish game show.where you bet your life--literally.

The first two of these superlatively shocking novels were completed before Carrie was even begun. the others were written in between some of Stephen King's most popular bestsellers to date. And each of them is marked by the undeniable fascination of one of the most brilliant imaginations of our time.